Western pundits and journalists are all in a flutter over Ukraine. They think it’s terribly exciting, and want to be seen to be tough and decisive. Their internal monologues probably feature the word “Churchillian” quite a lot.
Naturally, that means a lot of them are saying some really stupid things.
This includes widespread calls for a NATO-imposed “No-Fly Zone” over Ukrainian airspace. This proposal is all over the media, even coming out of the porcine mouth of Sir Keir Starmer, the leader of the UK’s Labour party:
Labour will speak to the Government over no-fly zone, Keir Starmer says https://t.co/vUdag0Q49q
— The Independent (@Independent) March 1, 2022
A dip through the #NoFlyZone hashtag on Twitter will introduce you to hundreds and hundreds of people, many of them probably NATO shill accounts, all ramping of the calls for a no-fly zone.
It will also demonstrate that huge numbers of these people have no idea what a “no-fly zone” actually is or how it works.
We encountered this same issue in Syria a few years ago. After the Russians entered the war at the invitation of Bashar al Assad, Western journalists got all jingoistic and started calling for no-fly zones. We had to explain how they worked back then, too.
As we recently of our editors summarised on Twitter…
This pathetic idea non-military ppl have of what a #NoFlyZone is.
As if it was a magic dome of cozy protection that just appears & makes everyone safe without a shot fired.
Think for just a second about what bullshit that is pic.twitter.com/AZaFnXc31j
— OffGuardian (@OffGuardian0) March 2, 2022
A no-fly zone is not a magic dome of cosy protection put in place with a snap of the fingers and enforced without a shot being fired.
A no-fly zone is a declaration of war. It does NOT save lives. That’s a lie to trick stupid people into calling for escalation.
A no-fly zone will require NATO to shoot down any Russian aircraft that enter the airspace.
It will lead to inevitable retaliation from the Russians who will shoot down NATO aircraft & attack NATO anti-aircraft batteries. Thousands more will die immediately.
And since Russia already has its nuclear weapons on high alert any imposition of a no-fly zone Ukraine has a very high chance of immediate escalation to nuclear war.
And no, that would NOT be an exchange of tactical battlefield nukes. It would be strategic ICBMs.
Thousands of kilotons of nuclear weapons unleashed on every major city in the Northern hemisphere from San Diego to Moscow.
The war would suddenly be a mushroom cloud in YOUR backyard.
This is why even the Pentagon won’t contemplate a no-fly zone Ukraine. It’s global suicide.
No-fly zones do not save lives, they are not designed to. They are designed to escalate.
To all the people out there happily sharing the #NoFlyZoneinUkraineNow hashtag: If you really want to save lives get educated about what’s actually going on in Ukraine. Stop being a manipulated war-puppet spewing hashtags you don’t understand.
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The UK and Poland were allegedly discussing letting the Ukrainian Airforce use EU fighter jets in Ukraine flying from Polish bases. That lasted less than 24 hours before they backed off. Russia had a ‘no fly zone’ in place on day one of their strategic operation. Neutered the Ukrainian airforce and navy in 48 hours.
Russia has ramped up their air assaults using planes and helicopters to target the Nazi groups in Odessa and Mariupol and the forces being used against the Donbass. No one can stop what is happening and now there have been reports that more Russians are heading to Syria which may be another front opening up in this war just as Iran and the US are due to ink a new nuclear deal. Israel will not allow Iran to have nukes so I expect that situation may go hot sooner rather than later.
Please, dig a little deeper and don’t redistribute the bullshit here:
There is no (truly) Ukrainian Airforce pilot in existence, who knows how to fly any Western fighter jet.
No one could’ve seen this coming.
Sure, but some of those countries were do-overs. Is it our fault that they wouldn’t stay invaded?
Wars happen when events and ill conceived commitments begin to dictate affairs beyond the control of national leaders. There comes a point in every major war when plans go out the window, and the game becomes reactive, instead of following any kind of script.
The people in charge of national governments are incompetent. When faced with difficult decisions, they for the most part, capitulate, and surrender to doing whatever prior treaties and legal agreements made by inept diplomats say. Those agreements are often written to be deterrents, and not a playbook for actual confrontation. That fact becomes irrelevant to unqualified bureaucrats incapable of managing the situation they have created, and instead, these rules become a proxy for them actually making decisions and taking responsibility for them.
They always look back on the disaster, and say they had no choice because they were required to fulfill obligations of the treaty or defense agreement. This time is no different, and the point at where there is no turning back is getting closer.
I’m just trying to figure out where “upwind” is. North of Winnipeg is what I keep coming up with.
I will do nothing to take anything away from Russia as I believe they had legitimate grievances that were not addressed respectfully and excessive consideration given to the Ukrains.
I also believe this could have been avoided, and is made more complicated by the intrusion of others.